Show SUNDAY MORNING MAY 29 THE OGDEN (UTAH) 1955 CA STANDARD-EXAMINE- R Nation Relies Cyf On Reservists Gen Hall Says SALT LAKE In Bird's Nesfs Yet 'Dumb' Miners Took Banker In Famous Diamond Swindle LOGAN — The defense of the (Editor's Note: During the nanciers including London’s fadevelopment of Utah’s mining mous House of Rothschild Ralston decided he would try industry in the 1870’s two to a devised fantastic buy the field from the “two prospectors dumb prospectors” and offered scheme and hoodwinked some of the world’s them $300000 for it Philip and Slack were “regreatest financiers out of a fortune The Associated Press re- luctant” to sell but finally tells that story in the second agreed to give up their rights to of a series on tales of early the field for $660000 Ralston wrote them a check Utah) picked up the claim and settled By HOWARD S BENEDICT down to' make “millions” He sent two mining engineers DIAMOND GULCH Utah (AP) Two prospectors sat on a rock Henry Janin and Clarence King In a mountain meadow near here to survey the field They were in 1871 and plotted one of the impressed with their first look greatest mining swindles in at the meadow The diamonds were everywhere just as Colton American history ld Philip-Arnoand John Slack reported A closer examination revealed had accumulated $50000 in diamonds in such remarkable earlier mining ventures and deas tree forks and bird places cided to try to parlay it into half nests a million dollars Janin and King moved digging Five months later the two men in but did not find wearing tattered clothes walked equipment into the bank of California in San any gems underground Francisco and told the president ‘Field Salted’ Then King found a large diaWilliam Ralston they had discovered a great diamond field “at mond bearing stonecutter’s marks a mysterious point L000 miles and the engineers knew Ralston to the east” and needed capital had been duped The field had been “salted” to work it They wired their findings to Wanted Proof Ralston the bottom fell out Ralston asked for proof and of Utah’sand diamond boom they emptied two sacks of rough a search for Police started diamonds on his desk had Ralston immediately became in- Philip and Slack but they$660-00- 0 San fled Francisco the with terested and proposed the three of them form a company to mine The night before they left they the gems too many drinks in a bar had But first' the bank president and told the story of the swindle wanted more evidence the dia- to a merchant young They told mond field existed and asked him had used their $50000 they Arnold and Slack to take his as- to a load of South buy cheap sistant D C Colton to the “mys- African diamonds “niggerhead” terious point” from dealers in Amsterdam and They agreed but insisted Col- London They shipped them to ton must be taken blindfolded salted Utah the field and then into the field so that he could went to Ralston not later reveal its location had selected the Bank Two weeks later a blindfolded of They California because it was the Colton was led on horseback into closest to Utah and bebank big the eastern Utah field Here the cause were afraid Eastern prospectors showed him scores bankersthey be “too smart” and might of diamonds scattered over the scheme their meadow They were in rock expose had planned to crevices weed patches and along tellThe merchant swindle but he of the police the banks of a stream out from passed drinking too Colton rushed to San Francisco much with the and prospectors and reported there were acres of he recovered they the time by the precious gems had left town “Twenty men can wash out a Ralston returned the stock million dollars worth in a buyers’ money and insisted on month” he told Ralston shouldering the entire loss He Organized Company framed the cancelde check for The bank president was so im- $660000 and for many years it pressed he organized a hung on the wall of his office 'dollar company He sold stock as a reminder of his unfortunate to some of the world’s great fi experience get-ric- nation must greatly depend upon the reserve military strength provided by college ROTC programs Brig Gen H A Hall commanding general Utah General Depot told graduates at commissioning exercises at Utah State Agricultural College Friday The nation cannot afford a standing military force of a size necessary for adequate defense he stated in a principal address of the occasion The Air Force Assn ROTC Silver Medal for outstanding achievements was presented to Lt William W Wagner by Marvin commander Ogden Squadron Air Force Assn Utah Wing h 10-milli- PricGS BsIoVJ CITY (AP) — P Lloyd chairman of the com- Inc yesjerday Store declined to give a direct answer to a question aubmitted by the Utah Legislature’s Milk Study Committee asking if it would Safeway mittee In it reply Safeway reiterated to the committee it pricing policy of "doing business by pricing at the lowest point that will yield a reasonable profit” meeting competitors’ prices — “and not leading it” and of observing "both the letter and spirit of laws making it illegal to inor destroy competition” jure Gov J Bracken Lee instigated a “truce” in a price war among milk dealers in April The “war” saw prices go as low as "consider it necessary” to lower the price of any Grade A milk below 20 cents a quart The committee asked the retail grocery chain firm if price ' on milk were stabilized and other stores did not go below the price then would the firm quart say whether or not it would go a A protest was raised by some below that price in order to who thought the price war might meet bottle competition — stabilboth dairy men ized at 17 cent a quart —or to seriously injure ' smaller and retailers especially two-cekeep a price difference ones between delivered milk and milk The governor’ truce wa for bought in the store 60 days starting April 22 In a letter to the committee the firm said such a question “raises the question as to whether this milk investigation might be to eliminate competition in the milk business by securing SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- some commitment or agreement Truck driver Keene L Carver regarding prices “Safeway cannot and will not idled by a trucking strike deto be la party to any continue cided this week to do something such which proceedings about chuckholes in the street as be construed violating might in front of his home He filled in the holes in his laws or regulations prohibiting block with clay from his back the elimination of legitimate comyard tamping it down with his petition feet and letting passing cars do Reply Continues the rest “We therefore” continued the If the truck strike holds out — reply “must respectfully deand the weather too — Carver cline to directly answer your said Saturday he might finish question” the entire street The committe was formed to “The work may not be very investigate the war professional” he said “but I which occurred last month in haven’t heard any of the neigh- - several Utah cities — including bors complain Salt Lake City Ogden and Provo Stay Coal "laslda" With set is June next for Its meeting 3 The committee asked the firm Offers Safety Help an answer to this questo SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — tiongive before the meeting Gov J Bracken Lee has offered The reply as given to newsto see if added field help can be men was drafted by the legal FOE provided for safety work of the firm of Ray Quinney and Neb-ekPh 1 SSI 3S2S Grant Utah Safety Council and the attorneys for Safeway It State Road Commission was addressed to Sen Sherman 20-cen-ts 10-cen- ta nt Idled Trucker Finds 'Work' It's Outing Time And the Agriculture Department’s Forest Service this year is expecting a record crop of guests More than 40 million persons used the forests as recreation areas in 151 national forests Sketch shows a breakdown of 1954 forest 1954 more than double the prewar high set in 1941 visits by purpose Separate figures for canoeing scientific study and wilderness travel are not The parks which cover more than 180 million acres in Alaska and the United States available are free except for specially equipped areas Guests are asked only to leave places as they would like to find them — trash taken care of and equipment in good condition in its Usually Get It Utahns Expect Unusual From Gov 'Brack' TODAY “Our foreign aid is making us By FRANK WETZEL Any discussion of political not friends EverySALT LAKE CITY (AP) — philosophy with Lee is bound to enemies ‘Yankee When Gov J Bracken Lee re include the phrase “ruling where they’re saying go home’ We aren’t doing with cently suggested formation of a classes” money what we set out to “There are just two types of our third national political party the do and that was help the poor” he said in a reto federal aid reaction among Utah voters was: government” Lee’s opposition cent interview “One is where the to states is based on his conten“That’s Brack” people are master and the elected tion that the national governFrom Lee they have come to officials are the servants All is so ment in can’t it far debt others —communist socialist col- afford such expect the unusual acare They grants Lee called for a third party in lectivist and so on — are govern- cepted in Utah only as a matter ments where the officials are of survival he a Lincoln Day speech in Chicago masters and the says people are servas governor exLee’s term with Sen the platform Sharing ants There you have a ruling next No man ever R he pires year McCarthy Joseph class” r accused the Eisenhower adming0v"' He contends that both iederal 5“ otTCovered! istration of going “farther to the and state governments in this nor in Utah What are his poli- t left than in any two-yea- r have acquired too much country A £emocratic spokesman says counof our period in the history power Bennett’s office is contry” “The must rise up and Sen vinced Lee will seek Bennett’s Unless existing parties could take thepeople Colorok Asbttot in Pastel Color power from Washing1956 in in Senate the be “recaptured” said Lee “we ton” he said ELIMINATES PAINTING post “The same thing Most Democrats however say should immediately call a third for state Improve Your Homo governments” to run Lee comfor convention expect they Appeerente major political “You can’t trust anyone with LASTS A LIFETIME posed of people who believe in power The make-u- p of man No Down Paymont Lee himself says: “I sincerely government by law and not by makes that impossible Every 9 3 Yoar to Pay— Froo Estimates idea what haven’t men” slightest that gets too much power I’ll do the group disI feel Sometimes Lee It was not the first time INTERMOUNTAIN abuses it At one time it was inhad made national headlines by dustry and the bankers Now it couraged and think I should get ROOF CO speaking out on controversial is labor Everyone including my- out But other times I feel I 3030 Wash Blvd PH 6363 must continue the fight” subjects He had previously gone self abuses power” on record against federal aid to Lee touches of the of states for withdrawal of the mankind so often that frailty one critic United States from the United says the governor is dedicated Nations and for abolition of the to the proposition that all men income tax by repealing the 16th are created evil amendment His against Eisenhower Who is J Bracken Lee? What kicked speech of dust Both Utah lots up ing said “This strike has taken does he stand for? senators Arthur V Republican on national importance as this is Primarily his career has been Watkins and Wallace R Bennett the first time an entire industry politics although to him the term criticized Lee has taken a stand of this kind” politician is an epithet He has Bennett contended that what held public office since 1936 Right! And Lee wanted was the presidency The tie-u- p started when the his career he has but said the Throughout bid “is that’s th governor’s union went on strike against three maintained that politicians are to feeble and revery currently service you companies Trucking associations be distrusted He also holds as mote” tends that power hit back -- with an shut- major premises cen expect to corrupt and that government Isn’t Interested down when we Lee retorted that he wasn’t inlends itself to economy and effiFriday the employers offered ciency as well as any private terested in running for president handle your and said “I wouldn’t accept if it contracts calling for increases of business business In 1942 Lee ran for Congress were offered me” 8 cents an hour and cent per Lee’s distrust of power is mile each year for three years but lost by 269 votes Two years in his desire for the he was the Republican later Blnckburn-Jone- s Union Request nominee for governor but again United Nations Says he: “You will never make the UN The union has been asking for he lost In 1948 he became the 10 cents more now and 8 cents first Republican to be elected work until it is given power That additional in each of the two en- governor of Utah in 24 years means and Army and Navy Then it would have too much power suing years The base pay for He was reelected in 1952 "Men Who Know and we couldn’t trust it” western drivers now is $214 Lee Since becoming governor He has refused to proclaim Insurance " hourly has balanced the budget through Management’s offer of 8 cents such measures as slashing the United Nations Day in Utah for is for drivers of long-hau- l rigs It number of state employes by 10 the past two years He would also discontinue formade another offer for local line per cent With the money saved Dial drivers in southenf California— a he claims Utah was able to eign aid because: hourly raise each year for spend more on public building the next three years An industry construction in 2 years than said the offer not does spokesman periduring the previous apply to Oregon and Washington od where “regional provisions must He has a reputation in Utah as be taken care of” He said the a politician who keeps his promoffer applies to the other western ises and as an official who never states sidesteps a hot issue I j (R-Wi- milk-pric- e er 3-- s) SDOBM© The Service the Denture-Wearin- g Public Has Long Needed! 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